contacts made on phone disappear -- only contacts I add online, stay on the phone

[bdb4269]

Anybody else have a problem where contacts that you create on your phone, mysteriously vanish? (i.e. its as if you never made the contact)

[Gorro]

hmmmm strange

[bdb4269]

I think I got it figured out. And it is really stupid if you ask me.

I only have like 2 groups synced with gmail contacts, because I have a stupidly large ammout of gmail contacts, and I dont want them all synced with my phone.

So when I make a new contact, it has no group. When it syncs, it does add the said contact to gmail account, but then removes it from the phone, because its not in a group of contacts I have chosen to sync.

There is a "Starred in Android" group that is automatically created both places. (which does not automatically always sync**)

Seems like there should automatically be a "Android Contacts" group, so that any contact made on the phone, is automatically put in that group, and that group is ALWAYS synced (as long as you are syncing with online). That would be super simple, and would prevent this annoying behavior.

As it is, I guess I am going to manually add "Starred in Android" group to my sync, and I'll just have to remeber that if I do not star new contacts, they will disappear from my phone.




**(very non-intuitive -- in what situation exactly, is someone NOT going to want "Starred in Android" contacts, synced on their phone, and thus dropped from their phones contacts?!)

[dflannery]

it may sound stupid but when i first started using the g1 i wasnt scrolling all the way down and hitting save so i wasnt saving the data i just entered...could it be that simple?

[bdb4269]

Doesn't seem stupid to me. Unless you verify it's not something simple, you could waste lots of time looking at more complex possibilities.

That said --- i was actually hitting save, and the contacts would disappear afterwords.

Also, I found what my issue was -- it is posted above.

It was due to some very non-intuitive design, that will hopefully get updated to act more intelligently.

[Tyro Prate]

The problem I have with all of this is, I don't want everyone that I email a few times to show up in my phone, as they are automatically added to your gmail contacts. So, I sync only a particular group, but then you get the problem as stated above. I don't want to use the "Starred in Android" workaround, because I actually use the star system to keep track of my most-dialed number since finding numbers in Android is so ridiculous. When you make a contact, there is no way to add them to a contact group. All of this is very dumb for an OS made by such a smart company.

[Dharkaron]

Originally Posted by Tyro Prate

The problem I have with all of this is, I don't want everyone that I email a few times to show up in my phone, as they are automatically added to your gmail contacts.

Open contacts, hit menu, select display group. If you choose contacts with phone numbers, it will only show the contacts you have that also contain phone numbers.

This will allow you to sync all contacts and not have those email addresses you sent an email once to show up in your phone's contacts.

Looks like I didnt see the second page....oh well.

[orcking]

use MyBackup

[Tyro Prate]

That doesn't address the issue at all. I guess I'll just have to go into gmail on a computer every week or so and empty the "Suggested Contacts". Not a good solution.

[bdb4269]

Originally Posted by Tyro Prate

That doesn't address the issue at all. I guess I'll just have to go into gmail on a computer every week or so and empty the "Suggested Contacts". Not a good solution.

Oh hey -- You may have already thought of this -- But what I ended up doing, is just allowing it to sync all contacts, and then on the contacts list in android, you can filter it so it only displays contacts with phone numbers. This pretty much filters out all the auto-contacts gmail creates.